Tuesday Tech Tidbits October 05, 2021

  TUESDAY TECH TIDBITS

October 05, 2021

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by Sandy Blanc

Tip of the Week: Google Workspace for Education Plus- Google Meet Features!  

Back in September, Richard Pratt sent an email out to staff with a Google update stating we would be upgrading our SAU16 Google accounts to "Google Workspace for Education Plus". Over the next few weeks, using Tuesday Tidbits, I hope to share with you some of the new features that these upgraded licenses will bring to the Google applications. 

This week I will start off by talking about the new features to Google Meet!

You will notice that there are some new features in Google Meet: 

• Breakout Rooms! 
• Create rooms and randomly add students to each room or "drag and drop" students into each breakout room. 
• "Join" any of the breakout rooms to check in with students. 
• Set a timer to end all breakout rooms

• Polls! 
• Create a question to poll to your class.
• Show everyone the results or shut off that feature so they cannot see the results.
• The results are live and tally as they come in.
• An email will be sent with the polling information after the meeting ends! 

• Q&A!
• This feature gives students an easy way to ask a question. 
• You can show to the class; all questions, unanswered questions, answered questions, or hidden questions. 
• An email will be sent with the Q&A information after the meeting ends! 

• Whiteboarding!
• Whiteboard will open up Google's Jamboard and allow the class to collaborate in the same space. 

• Apply Visual Effects to Background! 
• No effect, slightly or fully blur your background
• Add a virtual background